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IT Management Linux News for Jun 13, 2008

Government CIOs 'Do Not Understand Open Source'(Jun 13, 2008, 15:45)ZDNet Australia: "Government CIOs that dismiss
open source software because of support issues, which is the case
for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do
not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems..."

Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business(Jun 13, 2008, 12:45)Business Week: " "Why do we need closed
vehicles? We do," he said. "Some of these things harm the industry
but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional
issues but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we
plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to
play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round
too.""

Wall Street becoming Linux stronghold(Jun 13, 2008, 12:00)Network World: "But even as the Wall Street
crowd increasingly puts its money on Linux — market watcher
TABB Group estimates that Linux adoption among the 14 biggest
investment firms this year will reach more than 72% of the
installed operating server base vs. 60% in 2006 — it's clear
concerns linger about the licensing model. That model requires
users return changes to the open source community under certain
circumstances, a touchy subject for companies that are battling to
accelerate their business processes."

Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?(Jun 13, 2008, 11:00)Free Software Magazine: "Several governments
and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free
software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and
commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those
plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be
answered: why did it happen? The City of Vienna made several
crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most prominent
ones"

French KDE Day Conference Videos Available(Jun 13, 2008, 06:30)KDE.News: "To celebrate the release of KDE 4,
the KDE French contributors and the Toulibre LUG organised a
two-day event on January 25th and 26th 2008 in Toulouse, France. On
the 25th, K&eactute;vin Ottens made a general presentation of
KDE 4, and on the 26th there was a day of technical conferences
featuring speakers such as David Faure, Laurent Montel, Alexis
M&eactute;nard, K&eactute;vin Ottens, Aur&eactute;lien
Gâteau and Anne-Marie Mahfouf. The videos of all these talks,
in French, are now available for download."

Review: Linux Powered HP Media Vault Pro mv5150(Jun 13, 2008, 03:30)Raiden's Realm: "The HP Media Vault is a wonder
of feature rich, simple file sharing. Based on Linux, it is capable
of some pretty amazing feats despite it's simple, small design. It
ships in sizes ranging from 500mb upwards to 1.5tb and is very easy
to setup and use. But how simple is simple? A simple as sunshine on
a cloudless day. But don't take my word for it. Instead, let me
show you."

What value in the Red Hat patent guarantee?(Jun 13, 2008, 02:00)Linux and Open Source: "This whole game of
Linux patent claims has always reminded me of how some poker
players will throw a stack of chips on the table while holding a
pair of 3s and others will fold in the face of it."